Ian Bishop : The
negligence has to stop at some point. The law is the law. Why should young
cricketers feel bad for following the law ?

Ashwin Ravichandran :
every single day,I can't push the front line,why should a batsmen gain yards.

Tino Best : Smart play WIU19 keep pounding boys .

Harsha Bhogle : Amazed
that the spirit of the game never comes up when batsmen hit the ball and stay
on but does when a bowler does ….

Heard of : Keemo
Mandela Angus Paul, a 17 year old from
Guyana, bats right handed and bowls fast right arm ~ and how do you connect him
with ODI 459, the 9th match of Reliance WC played at Gadaffi Stadium,
Lahore in Oct 1987.

Following
the U19 World Cup in Bangladesh? Today it
was a knock-out and West Indies Under-19 entered the quarter-final of the World
Cup in controversial and tense circumstances, as Keemo Paul effected a mankad
to claim the last Zimbabwe Under-19 wicket - that of Richard Ngarava - with
three runs needed off the final over. Paul ran through the bowling crease
without entering his delivery stride and broke the stumps, catching the
non-striker Ngarava with his bat on the line while he was standing a couple of
steps out of his crease.

The two on-field
umpires conferred before asking West Indies if they wanted to uphold the
appeal, and once it was confirmed that they did, the third umpire was called in
and found the batsman just on the line, ending Zimbabwe's campaign in a game
they had to win to make the quarter-final. The dismissal was within the rules
of the game. The Zimbabwe manager Admire Marodza said the team was unhappy but
there was little they could do but console the players because the dismissal
was within the rules. "It is too early to comment but we are trying to get
emotions under control in the dressing-room. Everyone is disappointed at the
loss," Marodza said. "Rules are rules. We can't change them and we
can't change what happened. A run-out is a run-out. I don't think it is
anything to protest about. We are not happy about losing the game from such a
good position. The way our boys competed, it is an achievement. We are happy
how we played in this tournament." The Zimbabwe coach Stephen Mangongo
said he was "disappointed with the way the game ended." "I have
debriefed the boys in the dressing room and they were all crying,"
Mangongo said. "We have explained that technically the run-out is legal.
We left it to the last man and we should not have done that. It was a hard
lesson and they have learnt it the hard way.

For the uninformed,
when the batsman at the non-striker's
end has backed up out of his crease and the bowler in his run-up removes the
bails with the batsman out of his crease, the batsman is said to have been
"mankaded". Technically, the dismissal falls under the run-out
category. It is named so after Vinoo
Mankad ran Bill Brown out in the Sydney Test in 1947-48. Mankad, in the act of
delivering the ball, held on to it and whipped the bails off with Brown well
out of his crease.

In that
1987 World Cup match at Lahore, Courtney Walsh bowled the last over, Saleem
Jaffer backed up too early. Walsh gave
him a warning, Abdul Qadir hit the required runs. Pakistan will always remember Walsh for that
gesture – many will call Walsh a
gentleman, perhaps WI slump started from that and they are yet to recover !!!

Eoin
Morgan is a good Cricketer, but knows little of past. Let him, Butler and his ilk turn the pages of almanac to read about the
first Test played at Wankhede Statdium in Nov 1981 – Test No. 911 – a bitter
one as India won by 138 runs.
Krishnamachari Srikkanth made his debut – out for a duck in the first
innings. In the second essay, he was
extremely nervy; he had the peculiar
habit of walking towards the square leg umpire after every delivery. He fended one towards the slip and took his
casual walks – not attempting a run but out of the crease. John Emburey at the slips threw the wickets
down and the whole England team celebrated !
Srikkanth was declared run out.
That day, it was well within the spirits of the game – Gavaskar openly
admonished Srikkanth and there was the remorseless remark that this boy should
learn that this is not ‘juhu beach and he is not going for a walking’ !